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Five days for Government to open formal negotiations before strike dates confirmed, RCN says after Autumn Statement
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: "It is now more than a week since we announced our ballot outcome and your department has dedicated more time to publicly criticising our members’ expectations than finding common ground and a satisfactory conclusion."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the health and social care secretary setting out key priorities ahead of this winter
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The storm engulfing the NHS is one of staffing shortages. Soaring numbers of people quitting and unfilled jobs is because staff are neither valued nor treated fairly."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Providers’ report on waiting lists and winter pressures
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “NHS leaders are having to cry out for help on the eve of the government’s spending announcements. Their fears are the same as ours - patients are being put at risk by the lack of investment from government."
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RCN Bulletin 395: Spring 2022
Read about the healing power of horses, endometriosis, safeguarding children, PPE risk assessment for COVID-19, Rohit's work with the Sikh community, and more.
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RCN Bulletin 397: Autumn 2022
Read all about fair pay and industrial action as the biggest ever nursing strike ballot approaches. Plus, the nurse tackling racial disparities, clinical care for transgender patients, pension planning, putting an end to unpaid overtime, and meet RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2022.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to latest NHS England performance data
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “These record waiting lists and delays for treatment in A&E are exactly why nursing has taken the historic decision to strike. These pressures cannot continue. Staff are doing everything they can to treat patients, but there are simply not enough nurses."
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RCN exposes false economy of relying on international and agency nursing recruitment, as strike ballot is under way
New analysis from the RCN today exposes the UK Government’s flawed policy of relying heavily on recruiting nursing staff from overseas and agencies, and letting undervalued, experienced staff quit the profession.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the announcement of Rishi Sunak as the new prime minister
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "Rishi Sunak must now decide if he wants to be the prime minister who cut the NHS and social care to the bone or one that invested in its people, patients and priorities"
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s efficiency savings comments
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “Mr Hunt must put patients first. The nursing workforce crisis is undermining safe patient care and with many choosing to leave the profession for better-paid jobs elsewhere, the need to pay a demoralised and unvalued profession fairly could not be more pressing.”
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the announcement of Steve Barclay as the Secretary of State for Health and Care
Responding to the announcement of Steve Barclay as the Secretary of State for Health and Care, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Last time in this job, the Health Secretary handed down the NHS pay cut we are currently balloting our members on. Within days, he will find out the result of that and the historic strike action that may result from it."